he met with the president, both he and senator john mccain said the meeting went well. but no deal. bret? >> bret: senator pat toomey of pennsylvania and james inlove of oklahoma. thank you for being here. senator inhof, first to you. what does this bill do? >> we made a decision a month ago if nothing happens on the sequest tration, the president is successful in getting all the cuts across the board, my major concern is that we would use the same top line to say all right, chief of the military, make decisions. what can you do rather than the straight pure cuts across the board that would be less damaging that they would -- the first response was we could do that. if we didn't have to live with cuts but the numbers would be the same. the same reduction, same top line. we could within that make changes to make it less painful for the military. so that was it. that was a month ago. i talked to the chiefs that time who said yeah, we could do it in a month and doing it. >> bret: in defense and nondefense, right, senator toomey? >> right. this government doubled in size since 2000. spe